Thread: How to pluck possums

I might go possum hunting next weekend (if it won't rain again ) I'm Just wondering if its worth using my old haircutter to get the possum fur instead of plucking it by hand.

No pluck...and just keep plucking,it's pluckin easy to do if you do it immediately.

Once you get a roll on with the plucking, you will find its faster to just do it by hand than to get the cutter out of your pocket, use it, then put it away again.

Getting around night shooting in the dark, you want as minimal amount of equipment as possible, when you have too much gear, it starts to get cumbersome fast.

Cut the fur and it's worthless

Pluck or nothing
Hands get used to it after a few days

It's pretty easy when they are warm. Cold I wouldn't even bother unless you have a heap and can use a rotary Plucker.

You get pretty fast at it with some practice, use your palm to sort of rub down the possum is much faster easier. Hard to explain but just try different methods until you find what works good.
Use an old 20kg grass seed or dog food sack or the likes that is reasonable rigid to put the fur in.that way you can stand with the sack in front of you and hold possum over it while plucking so fur just drops in.the most I ever did in a day was 73,you don't want to be bending over a little bag on the ground when you're plucking lots of them.